Ramon Torres Hernandez and Santos Minjarez were sentenced to death by the State of Texas for the murder of Rose Rosado
According to court documents Ramon Torres Hernandez and Santos Minjarez as well as a woman would kidnap Rose Rosado who was brought to a hotel room where she was sexually assaulted and murdered
Ramon Torres Hernandez and Santos Minjarez would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Ramon Torres Hernandez would later be linked to two more murders
Santos Minjarez would die on Texas death row in 2012 of an illness
Ramon Torres Hernandez would be executed by lethal injection on November 14 2012
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Ramon Torres Hernandez was executed on November 14 2012
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Texas is set to execute on Wednesday a San Antonio man convicted of kidnapping a single mother from a bus stop, then robbing, raping and murdering her.
Ramon Torres Hernandez, 41, was convicted in the 2001 death of 37-year-old Rosa Maria Rosado.
Hernandez is scheduled to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. on Wednesday. His would be the 39th execution in the United States this year and the 14th in Texas.
He has also been linked to the rapes and murders of two teenage girls in the 1990s and was considered the prime suspect in the killings of two others in a nearby county.
A DNA test linked Hernandez to the similar rape and murder of cousins Sarah Gonzales, 13, and Priscilla Almares, 12, in 1994, according to an account by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
According to recent news reports, officials in Bandera County south of San Antonio also considered him a prime suspect in the deaths of teens Jennifer Taylor and Laura Gamez, who disappeared a month before Gonzales and Almares.
Hernandez was one of three people convicted in the attack on Rosado.
Also involved were Santos Minjarez, who was sentenced to death but died of an illness on death row in January 2012. Hernandez’ girlfriend, Asel Abdygapparova, 42, was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2045.
In March 2001, the three were riding in a car when Rosado was abducted at a bus stop and yanked inside the car, according to an account by the Texas Attorney General’s Office. The men tried to take her purse and demanded money, but she insisted she had none, according to the attorney general’s account.
Rosado was taken to a motel, where she was raped and strangled to death, according to the account. During the ordeal, Abdygapparova was sent to a nearby store to buy a shovel, state officials said.
Five days later, Abdygapparova, a master’s student from Kazakhstan, told police what had happened and led them to the bus stop, the motel and Rosado’s body – which was buried in a shallow grave near the University of Texas-San Antonio campus.
Abdygapparova, who was five months pregnant with Hernandez’ child at the time of the killing, told authorities she feared for her life and was coerced into taking part. She said she did not know which man had killed Rosado, the attorney general’s office said.
Hernandez confessed to witnessing the attack but said Minjarez did it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-execution-texas-idUSBRE8AD0M620121114
